“It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.” – Michel de Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592)
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Thought For the Day: It Is Good To Polish Your Mind Against the Minds of Others
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Further Destiny
Who are we to deny who we really are?
Further Destiny by Michael Romani In a shivered ship of cold He sang a song remembered from old Ever bitter in its minding Lost without hope of finding That knife blade that sings As the purpose of it brings It's better to be done with breathing Than to be self-deceiving We must be who it is that we are Like guardians of light gone too far We must never give up to despair Allowing our ships to shoal knowing where The rocks that find their way to shatter Cast away as if it really doesn't matter With a simple splash that left its dash The waves are broken like a thunder's crash There in our further destiny Where our hearts birth their legacy We must be who it is who we are Ever true to our best north star (c) February 28, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Desert Skies
There are times that I truly miss driving through the deserts of the American West. I learned and saw and lived a lot there.
Desert Skies by Michael Romani Life for all its anguish is ours It belongs to no other We can spend it in the sunshine Or, we can spend it in bars Always seeking the company of one another Always risking all in calling another mine Love, or, so it nearly always seems Cannot be taken but only given Given as it can be not as it should be Love, is the substance of dreams Belonging to those who forgiven and are forgiven In whatever sort of eventuality So much of life looking like almost nothing Until we dare to look ever closer Recognizing the patterns of life's story These are the things that cause us to sing Never surrendering, always bending until "No sir" We are then unwilling to budge from its glory To the untrained, half blind eye Desert country is built on skeletons Sometimes it even seems completely empty Out there under the painted desert sky But, there is teeming life to all but the simpletons Who choose to see only what they will see To many assuming to have it all sorted out Too few really holding anything close to a clue So many searching only for answers they want Like a long black train filled with no doubt Certain of their track as the only track to do With only a handful of us certain this dog won't hunt There are those few with truly opened eyes Who those others call artists and dreamers Daring to truly see and live our dreams Out underneath the expanse of open desert skies Having had enough of egoists, conmen and schemers Let us learn to recognize and live beyond the painted seams. (c) February 28, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: Living A Healthy Lifestyle Will Only Deprive You of Poor Health, Lethargy and Fat
“Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.” – Jill Johnson
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First Principles:
“Perseverance and Spirit have done Wonders in all ages.” – George Washington
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Thought For the Day: God Has Given Us the Spirit of Power, Love and Discipline
“God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline” – 2 Tim 1:7
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First Principles: Without Morals A Republic Cannot Subsist Any Length of Time
“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.” – Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Tattered Hall
At times, life is a bittersweet drink and yet still it is what quenches our thirst.
Tattered Hall by Michael Romani With the tolling of the bells The poet is announced dead All the mystery and half of the spells From his words roll on in our heads Immaculately cancerous in suspicion Seldom the subject of derision The poet's song is ended And the darkness of night is befriended In the tattered halls left a mess Lies the body of his sacred muse There in her pretty summer dress Lies the peace of the poet unused But, instead cherished for herself Not as an object but a valued soul Whose words flowed like books from a shelf Spoken freely as they would stroll A few of the verses were quite tossed Back straight, no chaser; neat not wet Some of the meanings eventually lost But the feelings were such as to never forget (c) February 26, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
Secular Ideal
To hear the communists and socialists tell it the 20th Century must have been the advent of civilization as they and the secularists strove to drive God out of the public square and it was sheer coincidence that it was the bloodiest century to date in humanity’s history. Every reasonable person knows that we shouldn’t base morality on God, right? Right.. the exact opposite of what I believe…
Secular Ideal by Michael Romani To hear the words that secularists detail One must believe that history reveals That the Godless rule better than believers But instead history shows them as deceivers Unintentional though it may actually be But all the same victims of that misery That can only be self-inflicted without meaning Ignoring the sanctification of all human beings Believing themselves lovers of truth though not They lock themselves up in their dogma forgot Strong in their belief in mankind's wisdom Ignorantly stewing in the illusions to come As the war to end all wars only led to more And all the efforts at equality shut the door The door of opportunity become as divinely meant A shrewd discourtesy from difficulties lent To these self deceptive riskers of our doom Deafness is the striking chord of pending gloom A look at the 20th Century spells it out Millions dead as we killed off God in our doubt (c) February 26, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: No One Is More Privileged In America Today Than the Left
“Smollett staged a hate crime yet still has a job. Northam wore blackface and advocated infanticide yet still has a job. Fairfax was credibly accused of rape by two women yet still has a job. Don’t tell me about privilege. No one is more privileged in modern America than a leftist.” – Matt Walsh
It’s disgraceful. The truth is not found or made to prevail by lying, cheating, stealing, extorting or resorting to violence. The truth is found and walked with love.
Yes, I used Smollet’s crime as the pic on purpose and fully know that he has been charged.
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